It's Pretty Hard To Beat The King

i think this song is just comparing the murderer and his village to an outlaw in an old western town, and how jesse james terrorized the people there.

I love how the guitars sound like spiraling down after he says "Your gun's firing blanks. No way out."

"I'm not the one in chains." proves that hes held someone captive buliding the town their coffins means he plans on kiilling them all and people should forget his face. cuz alot of songs seem to mention forgetting. and he's unstoppable. but idk

Maybe he thinks he's Jesse James? As for "I own the night life". No one goes out at night because of him, their too scarred. So I get that part. The rest of that doesn't make too much sense. He mentions "we" sometimes so he's either a skitso or theres more than one killer? Possibly a wife type figure.

Sticking to my latest theory about having a female accomplice that he got rid of in "45223", and by looking at what appears to be a police badge hanging from the chair on the cover of the album, here's my idea for this one.

The killer is either a cop, or ex-cop. He knows the business, and he's pretty confident that he's not going to get caught now that he got rid of his partner.

"Go tell this town I've built them all their coffins. As for this face, best it be forgotten."

He's basically talking to himself. Bragging a bit and deciding to lay low so he won't become a suspect.

"Baby, baby, I've got a reason to leave, but I'm not going far."

He's going to leave town so that he'll slip under the radar a bit. But he's going to stay close so he can keep killing.

"Hells on it's way, no one's gonna stop it. I wear this suit, no one's gonna top me."

Again, bragging. The suit part is a reference to his police uniform. I think...

The chains and the firing blanks totally stumps me. I don't see what that means. Maybe that all the suspicions of the people in town are wrong, they're "firing blanks" when naming possible killers. Here2solve nailed the night life part I think.

"I drift from town to town across the nation. Praise the lord, lock and load boys. We go down, we go down, we go down together."

No idea. Someone please figure this part out for me.

CF Riot ...wow very well done as for the last part im not sure but i feel that the "lock and load boys" is about being a cop aswell... just a gut feeling

that looks like a locket its definitely not a police badge

Well, first of all, this whole thing about Saylor Lake is a fictional story that Danny Stillman, the lead singer of the band, created. And according to all the articles I read, the rest of the band got super into the idea and created the whole story line. And its the fans job to use the lyrics, and their website www.worsethanafairytale.com, to figure out the mystery of who the killer is. This website and the songs are like clues. Well, since I have been a dedicated fan for two years, I've analyzed like EVERY song. Haha. I have this theory that the killer is a vampire.

"They call me Jesse James and I own the night life. I drift from town to town across the nation. Praise the lord, lock and load boys. We go down, we go down, we go down together."

First of all, he owns the night life. Obviously vampires only come out at night. Yes, I understand serial killers usually do too, but if you read my other ideas about this on other songs, then you might understand.

And he's using his new found power to get revenge on all the girls that have done him wrong in his life.

"Go tell this town I've built them all their coffins. As for this face, best it be forgotten. Hells on it's way, no one's gonna stop it. I wear this suit, on one's gonna top me. "

It just seems fishy. But if he is a vampire, then who bit him? Find out my theory by reading my comment on the last song: "I Want to Master Life and Death".

The song's about him leaving the town, the first line "Go tell this town I've built them all their coffins" is basically saying "Don't get too comfortable; I'm leaving but staying closeby to kill."

I also think "I own the night life" is about people being afraid to go out cuz of him, as others mentioned.

The line "As for this face, best it be forgotten", to me, means he wants to lay low so as not to get caught. He doesn't want to appear as a suspect so he's leaving town but still committing murders.

this song kidna reminds of the old western by "we" he means the gang because all of the infamous wild west outlaws had a gang